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Good news. U of A plan to stop increase tuition for students who are recently in U of A. However, they will increase tuition the current students who will go to U of A next year. Sounds fair. I deeply agree.
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+ P8 F5 i# ?7 W$ bDear International Undergraduate Students,' {* Z1 m8 N& N7 ]
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Yesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties
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news to report from that meeting.% @- P$ D; e8 c4 l) r( I/ r& K5 {" n
1 u, b/ Q" i" n/ Y5 @First, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current
9 L: ]" l9 U4 J; tundergraduate international students from the increase to the
/ h0 z V; c9 e! P& @ }differential fee. This means that next year, all current international
) J+ B" W& e0 U& b! q astudents will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base 1 M9 A' o' f; L: }% x
tuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%). 5 [5 ]* W) ~1 f0 k4 Y s7 f
Also, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase
9 M. r2 ]( X4 S4 V( b5 xthe differential for international graduate students.9 S' Q _0 l7 a5 a8 Z% A0 j; x8 q
( d. y p2 ~8 Z% O: @Now, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an
4 P: f; ]' U2 s7 wincrease in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to
u( w% i0 N; X$ k/ f220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students ; \- D0 \* ?, d2 C* D' j) I
will pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At
- l: i) ^" j+ v! W9 x3 m- Gleast, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in
: S! ^4 {# U4 Y& u7 R0 ~8 A- ^/ ttuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected
7 r" ^/ J1 O1 h9 Aincreases once they are here.
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The Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the " V1 q8 `! M' y
international differential as well as the base tuition increase. I ) T8 }8 o2 R$ ~! `6 H$ ]
would like to say thank you to all of the international students that # e4 F2 A+ A8 n6 S
have sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this
I& j1 k- z y$ x" Hincrease. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your
* G% T; h* i1 M4 j# E0 x% Y7 khelp. Thank you.* O6 A2 _; D; T% C1 S
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Sincerely,
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" K- A$ e% M, E( G% w8 ~Jordan Blatz
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University of Alberta Students' Union |
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